We visited my niece just before Christmas and her husband has a Stressless recliner. DH sat in it and I thought I was going to have to prise him out with a crowbar, he was so taken with it! We have a Parker Knoll Norton three positional recliner which we have had for some thirty six years. It has been reupholstered once but it is still has the original mechanism and is giving sterling service. It doesn't fit in with any of the other furniture we have and has been relegated to the conservatory, but when my back is playing me up, or I'm really tired, it is my best friend in all the world! They don't make them anymore, and I was talking to an upholsterer who told me that the mechanisms for most reclining furniture now come from China and they are not very good. If you can afford a Stressless, I'd go for it.